Penpals?
Hey,I was just wondering if anyone has any travel penpals as far as written word goes and if so do you enjoy having a penpal you can share all of your travel stories with?
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I had a pen pal from Grantham, Lincolnshire when I was a kid. >>>>>>>Margaret Thatcher comes from Grantham - this pen pal wasn't called Margaret Roberts by any chance?
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David.. nope, I wasn't corresponding with the future Iron Lady. My pen pal was a guy... from a later generation than Mrs Thatcher.
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I can't write anything with pen and paper. Even if I have to write a condolence note, I have to compose it on the computer first and then handwrite it onto the note paper.There's just something about...
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Spizie I know youre no where near as old as Baroness Kesteven (as she answers to now).I had a pen pal when I was a puppy. He was a septic called Ron from Los Angeles. His mother ran off with another...
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I used to have a number of penpals during childhood... I loved writing and receiving letters.When I left home for my year out and then for university one of my best friends moved to Italy (where she's...
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"I can't write anything with pen and paper. Even if I have to write a condolence note, I have to compose it on the computer first and then handwrite it onto the note paper."Oh GTG, me too! I learned...
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That's exactly the problem, Cheech! I learned how to touch-type as well (as everyone should; that, and drive). I have terrible handwriting and I get so distracted by the cross-outs and general...
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GTG, we must be related:Quote: I LOVE e-mail, hate the phone, and could do without the post altogether -- I only get flyers and bills through the mailslot anyway.Though I'm not sure you'd want to take...
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Because I have two dear, dear friends who do not own computers nor like anything automatted (one does not have an answering machine and just recently got her first checking account REALLY- they've...
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Well, call me cranky but I get annoyed with friends who don't have or balk at using e-mail, as though it's some sort of deeply thought-out philosophical stance. It's so handy for making plans with a...
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Personally, I think not keeping up with changes in the culture is what turns you into an old fogey.
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Well l think emails are the best thing since sliced bread! But I also enjoy phone conversations with those I can't see as much as I would like to. My dear friend and I who is like a sister as we met...
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Gawd, I wish my father would arrive at the keyboard altar.Poor darlin' is SO difficult to speak to via the phone... let me edit that... YELL at, via the phone. I can hear my DHasking him a question 3...
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Oh razzle -- I can so relate -- I'm just back from 4 days with the over 90 set and I haven't stopped yelling yet Re the original question -- I started out being a great letter writer, then became a...
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When I was 12 years old the school had a 'penpal' exchange program and my pen pal was a guy from Cote d'Ivoire in Africa. After a couple of letters, he started harrassing me and asking me my passport...
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I agree, goddesstogo. I got so cranky about trying to get together with 4 people, that one actually got an answering machine because of me. They just don't get it that the computer enhances and makes...
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Interesting story. Some of you know I'm now doing the play SHE LOVES ME, which is the rough basis for YOU'VE GOT MAIL. The leading man and women are penpals in love, yet they work together and...
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Wow indeed Patrick!! Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. That is quite a story
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I love that kind of story, Patrick. A great 'penpal book' is 84 Charing Cross Road. It was also a lovely movie.
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